it was. french forces take control of a strategic uranium mine in new she asked questions mount over the leadership and direction of president francois hollande. the spanish prime minister visits germany for e.u. budget talks a brief recess oversight responded rather from the economic crisis and corruption

scandal engulfing him back home. and serious president warns of possible retribution after israel strongly against it was behind the calls border airstrike close to damascus. the useful russia under running the well this is as he with me hello and a very well welcome to the program france has sunday its military to any share in an effort to strengthen security at one of the country's biggest uranium mines so near us president says efforts are being made to avoid it similar situation to last month's hostage crisis in neighboring algeria the french military campaign has been in northern mali which is several hundred kilometers from the on eight mining sites

the facilities ordered by a french mining giant a major player in a country which has the world's fifth largest producer of uranium france heavily depends on nuclear power for its domestic energy it makes up nearly seventy percent of the total share also saw discontent among mine workers last year who protested against working conditions and wages many believe new sherry's key to france's energy security and the. french president all around countries canada his economy because of his mori a few notional reports now there are increasing doubts about whether or not they can turn it around the. world president on land is welcomed as a liberator in mali after france's military operation against the islamists occupation back at home crowds are also gathered but with a starkly different mood where people are fired up over the continued decline of europe's second largest economy despite the president's promises to create at least one hundred thousand new jobs the nation is shedding them at an alarming rate last

november about a thousand every day the worst figures in years the country's unemployment is approaching a shocking eleven percent with more than three million jobless the french daily live on claims that the exact situation could be even worse if official statistics include youngsters never registered for the unemployment program or those who left it and those stuck with part time work the paper says the rate would then triple but there certainly is a lot of people expected to have a strong president and they understand that on doesn't have enough experience for competence to improve things the last two weeks as we see from. the fans who are so you know believes the strategic mistake was to ratify the e.u. so-called three percent treaty force in france to reduce its budget deficit down from four point five percent by hiking taxes and cutting spending. but while harsh

criticism expected from the opposition disapprovals also been growing from like minded left wingers or companies where i think the president especially of a country like france one of six e.u. founders should be strong enough to say stop to others and say hey i have my nation behind me and they elected me to make changes instead he surrendered because he's worried about the country's debt and the ratings agencies make. in a short video french communists put together some of our lawns major presidential campaign vows none of which they say came true. look what the child left of you know the value added tax increase. i think it's inappropriate and unjustified and unreasonable and too hasty. what happened to well that's to remind the president do you remember you promised to review the european treaty you didn't do that here in germany set a three percent deficit isn't real but now only say it's possible etc etc you can't

not do what you promised meanwhile recent polls show a little rise in the fringes of the breaking forty four percent january to december forty percent the lawyer says he wants to office in may. every week that is a new subject to discuss in the french media and to draw people's attention from the real problems like gay manager deployed you are now molly this strategy may work but not for long. after all land won the french election last year some analysts described his victory as a victory against his predecessors are causing trouble for long now b.c. many feel that past their chins in the. months of the lungs presidency have been anything but sunny opponents and even his one staunch supporters predict even harder times lie ahead for the leader of the country's municipal elections in two thousand and fourteen have historically held great significance and will show whether the voters can forget and forgive. me for things from paris.

but another round of talks on the e.u. budget glooming the needle the bloc strongest economies meeting the leader one of the weakest and then attempts to lay the groundwork for a new deal the german chancellor is hosting the spanish bond minister back home in madrid mariano rajoy is battling a corruption scandal and also his handling of a corner me off his piece on a. it could very well be called a meeting between the euro zone's haves and well quite frankly the have nots as german chancellor angela merkel sits down to talks with the spanish prime minister mariano what are wholly germany still widely regarded as the euro zone's the only real success economically while as many fear that spain could go the way of greece now the spanish prime minister will receive the full welcome of germany including full military honors how are they if he was to turn up at the doorstep of many in

his own country he may face severe criticism that's because many spanish citizens still think he hasn't done enough to deal with bank has the same basically the bearings are a huge incredible feast run only by greed the government's not helping the people the top in the bearings it has been at least thirty or fifty times the issue but in the last month there was three people they were going to be a few dozen i wonder how does but they hang themselves before the police were right there any of the lonely any i feel really sad when someone is thrown out because he has no one he can take care of him. this meeting between the leaders of germany and spain comes ahead of a very important summit taking place this week where european leaders will try and decide on the budget something which is separated countries within the union

thus far and economics professor at boston university laurence kotlikoff says to overcome the banking crisis you need to revamp the whole system and make it more transparent and maintain without he's selfish of announcing he said that's the lesson to ben and from america's embattled national system. the traditional banking system the model is one of very high leverage banks borrow a lot of money promised to repay and then there's opacity they they take the money and they do something with it but they don't tell you what they're doing with it so it's a very unstable situation when you promise people things and then you don't share what you're doing with their money and then and that's what happened in william brothers and bear stearns and. merrill lynch and all these companies that one on one under one after the other everybody started worrying because they couldn't see the assets so what we need to do is. get rid of this

faith based banking we need to have. no leverage and we have to have transparency. and you can catch the full interview with economist or laurence kotlikoff at eight hundred forty five chante. although scientists say lie detectors are unreliable in identifying national security risks more than seventy eight thousand of americans each year are tested on them washington is promising to draw up a new national polygraph policy following allegations u.s. federal agencies are exceeding their legal and ethical limits to determine who can be trusted he's more important i talk to those who believe appointed raphe as a tool used to incriminates they're innocent. for more than three decades john

sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests aren't and i and there's no there's no accountability for that. last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s. agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as

a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges that he was pressured to go back and continue interrogating or a decade ago the national academies an organization advising washington on scientific matters urged the feds to stop using polygraphs as a screening technique scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an interrogation tool. there's a question that the trip that leads to. the drilling down. question that they get asked may well be quite true over the past twenty. at least fifteen federal agencies

including the n.s.a. and f.b.i. have reportedly continued or expanded their polygraph screenings with nearly five million people having access to classified information or washington maintains that polygraph testing is the most effective way from preventing secrets from being leaked lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she contends that it's ninety eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included but i do understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is what are they willing to discuss what are they not willing to discuss however applicants who are denied a coveted position after failing a polygraph are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results were filing complaints in federal

court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screening there was absolutely no question in my mind the test was wrong it just was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for sullivan book detailing america's polygraph system the sub's a come in for a polygraph test now are guilty until proven innocent and i think that's a. a corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security

bring up or not our team new york. so i had for you this hour raising the stakes president are some of. the stabilizing serial following the fast official hint it was behind an asse track at a mosque. on hay damage the late director. as he knows who threw acid in his face of a damaging his eyesight but all the details on that in the minutes ahead. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv

aids lives within a year. over sixty two percent of patients are diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem certainly should be about a lot less a tragedy a lot less human suffering. live

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a way. i live. like the. president bashar al assad says syria can take on any force that can sunset while accusing israel of trying to destabilize the country it was his first public statement since an alleged israeli airstrike inside syria last week israel's defense minister has given the strongest indication yet that the i.d.f. was behind baton on his policy and i have reports. it does come from the israeli

defense minister it would be rogue and he has said that it is proof that when israel says something it means that he did stop short of actually a third being israel's involvement now u.s. officials have said that the strike targeted an arms convoy that was carrying anti aircraft weapons from syria to lebanon according to the israeli defense minister ehud barak he said that we do not think and i'm quoting that syria should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into lebanon it is important to make the point that his comments does not constitute acknowledgement of israel's involvement in the strike but it certainly does suggest the possibility that it took place and it was responsible for it but also said that the syrian president bashar assad's fall is imminent and that it would serve as a major blow to his villa and iran need to look at this israeli strategy and it's a strategy that israel has employed in the past and that is namely a strategy of silence it is strategic it doesn't give any kind of confirmation or

any kind of denial of what israel has done in the past is launch an attack then leave and it really its response has been no comment which really leaves the question in observations minds it is a culture lated moves because the silence allows israel's enemies to save face and thus reduce the risk of reprisals and it's collation against the jewish state of course the international for now for any kind of israeli strike in syria would create in its arguments in the international community we've heard for example from moscow who says that if indeed israel did carry out the strike it was an attack on a sovereign state and as such it breached international law and the arab league has also condemned the strike saying it is in violation of international law and it is purported against a nother sovereign state so israel of course will not want to come out publicly and acknowledge that it carried out such a strike because it would not want to have the kind of diplomatic complications and diplomatic fallout that would follow from such an admission. maybe least an expert

on the risks sounds damascus has means to retaliate against any israeli air time. for now i don't believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember the. law is one of syria's allies iran is also one of syria's allies and it's important to note here that the. head of the supreme national security council the iranian supreme national security council is currently in syria so paid more not respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional warfare but there might be other means use talking for example sort of israeli officials storing the trouble for his role in general and i think that something that something would syria is an expert at doing syria has been on the side on the war so long to his father has been a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side of his role once before because this will

basically break down the uranium husband lost syrian access which is the biggest threat to the not the government. and you can also go to our web site and find out how dead children have been used for spying in the u.k. for decades and you report signs that british cops have been stealing the identities of dead children and using them to go into combat against accidents and all of that had to. demonized as a need glad gresson and hounded by sanctions but iran shows he's open to negotiations and will meet major world powers to discount bad junctions in kazakhstan in three weeks time right now to know what. the. government no longer represents the people. of the people who are going to take the term.

the way or. the head of moskos the bolshoi ballet company is traveling to germany now two weeks

after having acid thrown in his face sergei filin will have the treatment that to help him fully regain his eyesight on his reign i'm going to ask i was at the moscow hospital what's that in all steak and after that time. he is doing rather well surprisingly well actually he did thank the doctors for doing everything in their power to pull him out of a very difficult situation that he found himself in to did suffer third degree burns and those a very severe to his face and neck he said he's full of hope for full recovery and he's full of willpower and he actually looked very enthusiastic and upbeat about the whole situation of course considering his circumstances actually he did appear to be quite so on his road to florida robbery did speak about person who is who has been supposedly behind the attack he did say that he knows exactly who it was but on this particular day today did not want to talk about the investigation

at all so as not to interfere with the investigation he did however mention. he did to receive threats before but he also mentioned and this is important according to city feeling himself he didn't mention that he is continuing to work with everybody who has been left in charge of the bolshoi theater he said that nothing about the voice or a theater is changing and the performances and everything about the theater will be carrying on as before. and unless not check some other stories from around the globe this hour in the u.s. eight people have died their boss collided with a pickup truck on a narrow mountain highway in southern california dozens of others were reportedly injured and treated at the scene a possum passenger car was also caught in the accident they rode was reduced to one lane causing a major traffic jam. environ government forces were once again clashed with anti regime protesters in the rural areas tear gas was used against

the crowds hurling petrol bombs bahrain has suffered almost daily violence since an uprising began two years ago in a public call for greater freedoms from their monarchy the authorities are accused of oppression under severe quieted down opposition activists allegedly illegally jailing and torturing some to keep them quiet. and the gyptian man who was beaten naked in the streets of cairo during demonstrations on friday as riot police are to blame they have previously accused opposition protesters of being behind that footage of suburbs treatment of the homes of uniformed officers or shown on state t.v. further into racing the crowd storming the presidential palace calling for president hosni to quit. it's a down day and cuban leader fidel castro has voted in parliamentary elections making a surprise public appearance after months of not being seen castro has kept a low profile since an illness in two thousand and six and in the last three

elections voters from his home speaking of state t.v. have praised the policies of venezuela's president hugo chavez who is currently recovering from cancer surgery in havana and for the first time in two decades cuba will elect a new argument. and in a few minutes peter about his gas argue about same sex marriage and crosstalk. secretary of state. recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the

testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally

stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. welcome to. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle what is a marriage and should same sex marriages be legally protected is it a universal human right to marry whomever you wish is this debate about equality and discrimination and what about the issues of religion social values. to cross-talk same sex marriages i'm joined by peter tatchell in london he is a human right.